I was recently wondering the same thing, but I didn't find any easy answer. I ended up creating an extension that sends a ping to healthchecks.io with every archive interval. That way, you can get an email, text message, whatever if weewx stops reporting. On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 9:29:41 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
> It comes down to the source of the failure you want to monitor. > Using systemd will let you restart weewx if it stops running but will not > detect it looping or otherwise 'working' (as seen by the OS). It also won't > detect a OS crash or power down. > if you just want the appearance of a file or data records etc. on some > external computer (whether inside or outside your LAN) then you could set > up something like an MQTT broker and have an app that subscribes tot he > packets and does whatever you want if something is not received - a bit > like a 'heartbeat monitor' app. However this would show you an error if > anything between weewx and the subscriber was not working, not weewx > specifically. > Susan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/dcf95180-ebbc-440a-8c84-27c3cd8dabe8n%40googlegroups.com.
